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Dear President Obama: The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to express its deep concern about the recent killing, jailing, and harassment of journalists in Burma. During your upcoming visit to the country on November 11-12, we urge you to impress upon Burmese President Thein Sein that future U.S. engagement will be predicated on a renewed and genuine commitment to press freedom.

Bangkok, July 23, 2014--Burmese authorities should drop national security-related charges brought against journalists and staff members of the Bi Mon Te Nay (Bi-Midday Sun) news journal, and release them from pre-trial detention immediately, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

The media landscape in Burma is more open than ever, as
President Thein Sein releases imprisoned journalists and abolishes the former
censorship regime. But many threats and obstacles to truly unfettered reporting
remain, including restrictive laws held over from the previous military regime.
The wider government’s commitment to a more open reporting environment is in
doubt. A CPJ special report by Shawn W.
Crispin

Just ahead of this weekend's highly anticipated Burma
by-elections, opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi today denounced
the vote as not "free and fair." Indeed, Thein Sein government's
harassment of opposition media in the run-up to the polls raises disturbing
questions about the country's reputed new democratic direction after decades of
repressive military rule.

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When U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets this week
with Burmese President Thein Sein, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and
senior ranking members of the military establishment, she conspicuously will not
have the opportunity to meet with journalist Sithu Zeya.

Sithu was detained by police after recording the impact of a
bomb that exploded in a crowded Burmese marketplace in April 2010. The
journalist was sentenced to 17 years in prison on charges related specifically
to his reporting activities, with an additional 10 years tacked on this year --
soon after Thein Sein announced his intention to increase media freedom in
Burma.